6. Michael Miller; mjm7@pdx.edu; NW Noggin social media coordinator; I am pursuing a Ph.D. program to conduct research in critical disability studies and critical pedagogy to challenge the inherently oppressive and exclusionary practices of the hegemonic education system and the normative idea(l)s imposed on all students, specifically gender expectations on youth with disabilities. My proposed work would seek to co-generate new understandings of normative idea(l)s of gender and disability, and how these social constructs are inextricably linked to other parts of life (e.g. sociopolitical, historical, sexual, socioeconomic, racial).